Comments on: Delaware Park waiting on Rachelhttp://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/delaware-park-waiting-on-rachel/1835/
National and local horse racing newsThu, 04 Aug 2016 14:45:36 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: triderhttp://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/delaware-park-waiting-on-rachel/1835/#comment-915
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:41:40 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/?p=1835#comment-915It’s always about the money. That horse was never going anywhere but the Haskell. NYRA needs to step-up.
]]>By: Glimmerglasshttp://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/delaware-park-waiting-on-rachel/1835/#comment-914
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:38:13 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/?p=1835#comment-914I concur with Maryland Guy in so far as to why they’d use the Delaware Handicap – to see if she can go the 1 1/4 distance with ease or if it is outside of her optimal distance. Either way it would be one less open question before the Travers on Aug 29th

While not a walk over, the Del Handicap against other fillies and older mares is not likely to be a huge challenge. Frankly I’d run her there because of (1) the fat purse, (2) to see if she can handle the distance, and (3) to potentially run twice in August with the time spacing.

The Haskell is fine but it’s no Travers. If they try both races then it still leaves open the distance question. Frankly I’m still not be convinced Jackson would want to run her back to back against the boys anyhow.

Not that they bought her to fatten up the bankaccount but logic would dictate that running in a $1M “easier” race vs. an exhausting $1M makes more sense.

]]>By: Davehttp://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/delaware-park-waiting-on-rachel/1835/#comment-913
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:12:58 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/?p=1835#comment-913being from the capital region, we are all hoping she runs in the Travers!
]]>By: Maryland_Guyhttp://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/delaware-park-waiting-on-rachel/1835/#comment-912
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:10:11 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/?p=1835#comment-912The only reason I would run her in the Delaware Handicap (at a mile and a quarter) would be if they then wanted to run her in the Travers Stakes against the boys (also at a mile and a quarter) and then the Breeders Cup Classic (also a mile and a quarter).

I can’t see asking her to run a mile and a quarter now and then asking her to shorten back up again. If memory serves me, that didn’t work out too well with Easy Goer in the 1989 Breeders Cup Classic (the colt won the Jockey Club Gold Cup at 1.5 miles and then tried to shorten up for the Classic.)

My guess is that they will run her in the Haskell at Monmouth — a track that favors her style and a distance she likes (mile and eighth). And winning 60 percent of a $1 million purse in a Grade 1 against the colts is not a bad thing, either.

]]>By: Z.Blackhttp://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/delaware-park-waiting-on-rachel/1835/#comment-910
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:55:06 +0000http://blog.timesunion.com/horseracing/?p=1835#comment-910I know where I would not be running her and that’s against Zenyatta on an synthetic surface. Apparently Jess Jackson knows a losing proposition when he sees one.
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